Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index.

Introduction / Graeme Turner and Jinna Tay -- Matrix media / Michael Curtin -- Less popular but more democratic? Corrie, Clarkson and the dancing Cru / John Hartley -- The twenty-first-century telescreen / Mark Andrejevic -- Screens: television's dispersed 'broadcast' / P. David Marshall -- Television and the nation: does this matter any more? / Graeme Turner -- Between the public and the private: television drama and global partnerships in the neo-network era / Serra Tinic -- Approach with caution and proceed with care: campaigning for the US presidency 'after' TV / Toby Miller -- Reinventing television: the work of the 'innovation' unity / Stuart Cunningham -- Television culture with 'Chinese characteristics': the politics of compassion and education / Wanning Sun and Yuezhi Zhao -- Television in Chinese geo-linguistic markets: deregulation, reregulation and market forces in the post-broadcast era / Jinna Tay -- Television in the Balkans: the rise of commercial nationalism / Zala Volcic -- Anachronism, apologetics and Robin hood: televisual nationhood after TV / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- Latin America's impact on world television markets / John Sinclair -- Reasserting the national? Programme formats, international television and domestic culture / Albert Moran -- From monopoly to polyphony: India in the era of television / Adrian Mabbott Athique -- Fragmentation or consolidation? Factors in the Oprah-ization of social talk on multi-channel Arab TV / Naomi Sakr -- Globalizing televised culture: the case of China / Anthony Y.H. Fung.